CurL.— Grasses, etc., suitable to New Zealand. 535 
Cynodon dactylon, the Doobj Grass of India.—I found a little difficulty 
at first in acclimatising this grass, but it now seems to ripen its seed with- 
out difficulty, and kept green during a considerable portion of the winter, 
but is especially good as growing during the hot and dry season. 
Stenotaphrum glabrum, Buffalo Grass, is an excellent grass for summer 
herbage. During the winter it remains stationary, but during the summer 
no weather appears too dry or too hot for it. It continues to spread over 
as large a space of ground as the stock feeding upon it will permit. It does 
not readily ripen its seeds, but is easily propagated by dividing its roots and 
planting them, each root sending out stems which form rootlets at every 
joint. It is also a useful grass for covering sandy lands and hill sides. 
Briza major is a grass worthy of some introduction; for although in 
some places it is only an annual, yet in others it will appear year after year; 
but in all situations it makes such an abundance of seed that it is sure to 
drop enough down to perpetuate itself, and its great merit is that it begins 
growing very early in the winter and all through the spring, and gives an 
abundance of early herbage before other grasses begin to shoot. All stock 
are fond of it, and it is nutritious and useful for them, making feed before 
other grasses begin to grow. 
Phalaris canariensis, although another annual, I believe to be a useful 
grass from its early habit, the readiness with which stock eat it, its fatten- 
ing properties, and large amount of seed. I would not advise its use so 
much for permanent pastures as sowing it with Rape, or Trifolium incarna- 
tum for one year’s lay in alternate husbandry, the Trifolium incarnatum grow- 
ing such an abundant crop for hay or herbage that a very large number of 
stock may be fed off the acreage so laid down, and, although these three 
latter plants are annuals, they will be found very serviceable to the farmer 
and to the grazier. 
Bromus unioloides, Prairie Grass.—This useful perennial grass is of the 
utmost value in permanent pasture as a winter grass, and grows all the 
year, but most luxuriantly during the winter months. It produces a con- 
siderable quantity of sweet and succulent herbage. As soon as the wet 
weather sets in it rapidly throws up its nutritious foliage, growing through 
frost; and the stock relish it so much that they will even eat it out by the 
roots if allowed to stay on it too long at one time. It seeds abundantly, 
yielding large quantities, which are as good as corn for the stock that eat it. 
If cut for hay it makes an excellent kind, well filled with nutriment. 
When permitted to seed the stems are from three to four feet high. It 
contiuues to ripen its seeds all through the winter if kept free from stock. 
Bromus schrederi, Schreeder’s Brome Grass, is even more permanent in 
pastures than the Prairie Grass, as, from its habit of growth, the erown of 
